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Kia ora, welcome to my website…

Hi, I'm Brendon Burns and I am proud to have been elected as the MP for Christchurch Central in the November 2008 elections. Thank you if you supported me and Labour, though I am very happy to represent all constituents.

I am also very pleased to have been selected as Opposition spokesman on broadcasting and water. If you have an issue as a constituent in Christchurch Central, you can phone the electorate office - 377 8840 - to seek advice or make an appointment. The electorate office is sited at 103 Worcester St. Or you can email me at bb@brendonburns.co.nz - your views and concerns are important to me as your MP.

Brendon Burns

LATEST ITEMS

Environment Minister Nick Smith has taken five weeks to wake up to his responsibility to intervene in the Mackenzie Basin factory farming consents debacle, says Labour water spokesperson Brendon Burns.

Cabinet divisions over how to deal with factory farming consents in the MacKenzie country may prevent the sort of the Government intervention that is required, says Labour’s water spokesman Brendon Burns.

Prime Minister John Key and Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman must explain why they consider our elite Commonwealth Games athletes less worthy of media coverage than All Blacks, says Labour Broadcasting spokesperson Brendon Burns.

The decision of the Environment Minister Nick Smith to intervene in the factory dairy farming resource consents in the Mackenzie Basin has been welcomed by Labour water spokesperson Brendon Burns.

Environment Minister Nick Smith has been asked by Environment Canterbury if he wants
to call in the resource consents for factory dairy farming operations in the Mackenzie Basin, says Labour water spokesperson Brendon Burns.

A finding by the Auditor General against four Environment Canterbury councillors has been welcomed by Labour’s water spokesman Brendon Burns who laid the complaint.

After clinching a deal with the Maori Party 18 minutes before its announcement, the National Government has pushed through under urgency emissions trading laws that will over the years ahead cost Christchurch families the thick end of $100,000.

Labour MPs Maryan Street and Brendon Burns are concerned at the effects of financial pressure being brought to bear on the Nelson-Tasman region’s polytechnic.

The School of Music proposal undermines our heritage and fails to deliver for our city, says Christchurch Central MP Brendon Burns

Prime Minister John Key has been challenged to oppose development of 16 giant dairy farms in the fragile Mackenzie Basin after it has emerged that resource consents for the farms have already been granted without public notification.

The axing of the final local programme components of Newstalk ZB Christchurch marks a sad day for radio broadcasting, says Christchurch Central MP and Labour Broadcasting spokesperson Brendon Burns.

The bill abolishing the Television New Zealand charter is the latest step by the Government toward making TVNZ a cash cow and ending any requirement to behave as a state broadcaster, says Labour’s broadcasting spokesman Brendon Burns.

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